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To be fair, what Vic was doing was scummy but not in the way he was made out to be.
People didn't pay much attention but the. affidavit for Todd Haberkorn (a witness for Vic's side of the case) inadvertently exposed Vic as the pioneer for everything wrong with the current convention scene.
Cons used to be "guests paid for their appearance, Q&A session, generic meet-and-greet/autographs".
Vic was one of the first ones (at least in terms of the anime scene) to start charging for his autograph and he basically built an entire fake "friendly outgoing optimistic guy who loves his fans and loves his role and just loves being here!"
Even the "Vic is a good loving Christian" thing came from an incident where there were Calvinist protesters outside the con (a protest that pretty much the whole staff had been made aware of) and he just so happened to walk by them when he just so happened late for a panel and just so happened to be so enraged by how they made God look hateful instead of loving that he decided being even later was worth it to chew them out.
Man was literally just a walking marketing ploy trying to get people attached to him so they'd pay to take pictures and get autographs